The World's Most Mysterious Cryptids that You've Never Heard Of

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  • Uncover the mysteries of cryptids from around the world in our latest video! From the Loveland Frog to the Mongolian Death Worm, we delve into the strangest creatures ever reported. Are these myths or reality? Watch now to decide!
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 917

  • @dcsteve7869
    @dcsteve7869 7 місяців тому +147

    You won't find Graboids anymore. After Burt Gummer made it his personal mission to hunt them all down we simply haven't spotted any in years.

    • @philyeary8809
      @philyeary8809 7 місяців тому +16

      They picked the wrong basement to bust into.😂😂

    • @dr.froghopper6711
      @dr.froghopper6711 7 місяців тому +8

      Burt Gummer for President!

    • @angrydoggy9170
      @angrydoggy9170 7 місяців тому +8

      You must have missed the follow up documentaries. They literally evolved into flying creatures.

    • @SubZer00fucksgiven
      @SubZer00fucksgiven 7 місяців тому

      Have no fear! They come from space and Elon musk will hire him coming soon 😂

    • @jamesbohling4864
      @jamesbohling4864 7 місяців тому

      ​@@angrydoggy9170 Burt has shot guns too

  • @gerritvonuberwald4994
    @gerritvonuberwald4994 7 місяців тому +480

    Trunko was just a half devoured, decomposing whale carcass. There are a few videos on similar carcass finds, that explain, that whale blubber turns into white, fur-like strands while decomposing in the sea.

    • @mirthenary
      @mirthenary 7 місяців тому +14

      Yum. Nachos anyone?

    • @benjdorman5204
      @benjdorman5204 7 місяців тому

      ​@@mirthenary1

    • @christopherfurst133
      @christopherfurst133 7 місяців тому +24

      I eat those scientific explanations up. They are usually more ridiculous than the cryptid theory

    • @MAGGOT_VOMIT
      @MAGGOT_VOMIT 7 місяців тому +30

      Simon left out Senator John Fetterman. Although, he's just a Samsquatch with mange. 😳

    • @VengerVideoGamer
      @VengerVideoGamer 7 місяців тому +23

      Karl Shuker debunked the Trunko cryptid theory some years back (it's in the May 2011 edition of the Fortean Times too). I'm sure it's on his blog somewhere as well. He also found a fifth photo of Trunko in 2022. He also actually coined the name "Trunko" in 1996, in his book "The Unexplained".
      I like Simon's videos but sometimes they're not researched thoroughly enough.

  • @tombruner9634
    @tombruner9634 7 місяців тому +63

    No mention of ManBearPig? It's half man, half bear, and half pig. That's pretty mysterious.

    • @bruss529
      @bruss529 7 місяців тому +8

      Math, just do the math.

    • @nobodyfamousX
      @nobodyfamousX 7 місяців тому

      ​@@bruss529*woosh*

    • @joeschaiper4126
      @joeschaiper4126 7 місяців тому +8

      I this it more like a.. half bear, half man, half pig

    • @comettamer
      @comettamer 7 місяців тому +6

      And super cereal.

    • @comettamer
      @comettamer 7 місяців тому +4

      ​@joeschaiper4126 nah, it's half pig, half man and half bear.

  • @DJ_Mystic
    @DJ_Mystic 7 місяців тому +28

    The Rougarou's compulsion to count is shared by some vampire legends (and a few fairy legends, come to think of it). Though, I would argue the vampire version is less stupid. It is said you can prevent a vampire from entering your home by leaving a pile of seeds or grain outside your door, the vampire will be compelled to count them, but because of their long fingernails, they will often drop the seeds forcing them to start over. And this goes on until the sun rises and the vampire is forced to return to its grave.
    Anyone else think it's crazy that the Count Von Count from Sesame Street actually fits into vampire folklore?

  • @getnohappy
    @getnohappy 7 місяців тому +49

    "and that, your honour, is why I was seen with a bloody dagger near my wifes stab-wound riddled body"

    • @krisfinley6706
      @krisfinley6706 7 місяців тому +6

      That's exactly what I was thinking

    • @AngeliqueStP
      @AngeliqueStP 7 місяців тому +3

      Glad I wasn't the only one thinking that.🗡

    • @Lily_of_the_Forest
      @Lily_of_the_Forest 7 місяців тому

      Wondered that too.

    • @Fyrefrye
      @Fyrefrye 2 місяці тому +1

      "please ignore the fact that the blacksmith who agrees with my story and I now live together. We're just good friends"

  • @Draygarth
    @Draygarth 7 місяців тому +39

    Fun fact: While the death worm does sound silly, there is actually a type of ant with a similar self destruct attack. When it gets wounded and can't fight anymore it contracts it's abdomen until is bursts a bladder filled with either poison or acid, I forget which, and sprays it all over it's enemies.

    • @dyent
      @dyent 6 місяців тому +8

      It's the Bombardier Beetle. They trigger an exothermic reaction within their abdomen using hydrogen peroxide, the heat from the reaction causes it to boil which produces gas that causes it to burst.

    • @DOPExPIRATE
      @DOPExPIRATE 6 місяців тому +1

      ​@@dyentthat's crazy

    • @rustyhowe3907
      @rustyhowe3907 6 місяців тому +1

      @@dyent Bombardier Drill Instructor; "Alright Imma tell you this only once..."
      Bombardier Recruit Beetle; "Wow a once in a life time opportunity"
      Bombardier Drill Instructor; "You will c 4 yourself and it takes alotta guts!".
      Bombardier Recruit Beetle; "It's gonna be an absolute blast".

    • @drewrobinson5562
      @drewrobinson5562 5 місяців тому +1

      Ya... If you ever think a creature sounds to mystical, realize that some insects are way crazier, lol.
      You beat me to the Beetle so let me share that aphids reproduce via impalement and there idiotic war there way out (if it's wrong insect then hopefully Cunningham fixes it for me)

    • @ericvondell5157
      @ericvondell5157 5 місяців тому +2

      The Infamous:
      "IF I'm going down for the count:
      SO ARE YOU!💥"
      Syndrome!
      Forget That BS about"If you can't Beat 'Em, Make 'Em Remember You!"
      Instead, "TAKE 'EM WITH YOU!!!"🙀💥
      I like the way This Ant Thinks!💖💥🤪🤣💞

  • @JaneDoe-ze5qr
    @JaneDoe-ze5qr 7 місяців тому +226

    The Loveland Frog just ended up being an escaped iguana someone had been keeping as a pet. One of the officers admitted to it years later. They just made up the whole thing

    • @duncancurtis5108
      @duncancurtis5108 7 місяців тому +11

      In Star Wars lore the Rancor was supposed to be a scare story for the children of Tatooine moisture farmers such as Luke Skywalkers.

    • @mckenr07
      @mckenr07 7 місяців тому +1

      For a second, I thought Dom Jolly was back at it.

    • @ricktyuio283
      @ricktyuio283 7 місяців тому +9

      They focused somewhere near Colorado on the map then cough out ‘Loveland Ohio’ 🤨

    • @bchearne
      @bchearne 7 місяців тому

      And they tried to shoot it. Trigger happy idiots

    • @doggonemess1
      @doggonemess1 7 місяців тому +7

      The cop told everyone that he shot and captured the iguana, but the crackpot author who wrote about it omitted that part in purpose.

  • @do6574
    @do6574 7 місяців тому +64

    I love how some names translate from something terrifying like "Killer worm eater of souls and flesh" into English meaning "Banana Bob worm"

  • @NightBazaar
    @NightBazaar 7 місяців тому +36

    I think the tale of the Mongolian Death Worm was mostly intended to keep their kids in line. "Don't go out into the desert by yourself or with other kids or you'll be horribly killed by a DEATH WORM! As long as you stay home, you'll be safe."

    • @joshuahadams
      @joshuahadams 7 місяців тому +7

      There are *so* many “cryptids” like that.

    • @jacobjohns6047
      @jacobjohns6047 7 місяців тому +3

      There's also a poisonous snake that has a round head and tail and can be mistaken for a worm

  • @Coffee-hj5di
    @Coffee-hj5di 7 місяців тому +56

    Trunko is probably a whale, or basking shark, carcass. When flesh decompose in water + probably being eaten by scavengers, it tends to get shred apart into strands and turn pale, looking like fur.
    The “trunk” is probably the neck vertebrae or back bone after the skull had detached and fallen
    Tho even with a skull, whale skeletons look weird compared to the animal, one time I told my little cousin that the picture on her new t-shirt was a whale skeleton, and she said, “I thought it was a dinosaur”

  • @Nathan-vt1jz
    @Nathan-vt1jz 7 місяців тому +78

    I remember seeing a taxidermy ’Jackalope’ as a kid in a lodge. Totally bizarre, but I loved the joke.

    • @stephanybrown3226
      @stephanybrown3226 7 місяців тому +7

      Lol you go to the west of SD that stuff is EVERYWHERE

    • @Drew-bc7zj
      @Drew-bc7zj 7 місяців тому +3

      Watching American Home Videos back in the day, I've seen enough jackalopes to last a lifetime.

    • @Nylak-Otter
      @Nylak-Otter 7 місяців тому +3

      I've got a full-body mount that uses the skull and pelt of a real "jackalope" (a jackrabbit with growths on its head that appear large and bony, not just a jackrabbit with pronghorn antlers stuck to it). They do exist in nature and are somewhat common in the US, where the growths are bony and caused by a fungus. They aren't pronghorn antlers, but they can resemble it, hence the "myth" that was based heavily in truth.

    • @FrankGhal
      @FrankGhal 7 місяців тому

      ​@@stephanybrown3226Appalachians too

    • @JonLeung1
      @JonLeung1 7 місяців тому +2

      @@Drew-bc7zj pretty sure that was actually "America's Funniest People" with Dave Coulier and Arleen Sorkin/Tawney Kitaen that was on after America's Funniest Home Videos. They had a naming contest and the jackalope was named "Jack Ching Bada-bing". I don't know why I remember this stuff.

  • @tyloryoung100
    @tyloryoung100 7 місяців тому +85

    Obviously 99.9% of reported cryptids are not real, but the subject is endlessly fascinating to me. Please for the love of all that is holy make more of these videos lol

    • @SintoCarrera
      @SintoCarrera 7 місяців тому +3

      100%*

    • @tyloryoung100
      @tyloryoung100 7 місяців тому +14

      @@SintoCarrera the kraken bro. It's the giant squid. I don't remember exactly when they discovered it, but it wasn't long ago, Relatively speaking.

    • @SintoCarrera
      @SintoCarrera 7 місяців тому +1

      @@tyloryoung100 so it’s not a cryptid then lmao

    • @GothPaoki
      @GothPaoki 7 місяців тому +1

      Kraken is not a cryptid it's mythological.

    • @victoriaeads6126
      @victoriaeads6126 7 місяців тому +10

      Define the difference between mythological animal and cryptid. There is VERY little daylight between those two.

  • @TheGiggleMasterP
    @TheGiggleMasterP 7 місяців тому +26

    The Mongolian Death Worm is absolutely a shoe in for a D&D monster!

    • @BigBenAdv
      @BigBenAdv 7 місяців тому +5

      The Dune franchise also has the sandworm which is not too unlike the Death Worm.

    • @BeckyNosferatu
      @BeckyNosferatu 7 місяців тому +5

      the Purple Worm. Yep.

  • @kahvozeinsfang6953
    @kahvozeinsfang6953 7 місяців тому +13

    Rougaru was in an episode of Supernatural.
    I've heard of all of these, you have to get far more obscure to surprise me.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 7 місяців тому +11

    0:35 - Chapter 1 - Loveland frog
    2:35 - Chapter 2 - Dobhar chu
    5:00 - Chapter 3 - Mongolian death worm
    8:05 - Chapter 4 - Rougarou
    10:45 - Chapter 5 - Trunko

    • @Steven-xc9qv
      @Steven-xc9qv 7 місяців тому

      Gave up after the first three😅

    • @padillas4357
      @padillas4357 7 місяців тому

      Thanks. Now I can skip the rest. Boring!

  • @steel8231
    @steel8231 7 місяців тому +9

    My favorite cryptid is the "Not-Deer" it's a creature that looks, sounds, and acts like a deer. But sometimes the proportions are wrong or they walk on 2 legs, the only constant is that they make observers feel uneasy. And that's it, it's just a weird deer-shaped thing hanging out in the woods.

    • @ReksNuadiah
      @ReksNuadiah 7 місяців тому +2

      There's actually been a very good SCP made regarding them. I forget the precise number, but it's in the 6000s.
      6448, my mind wants to say.

    • @Bambisgf77
      @Bambisgf77 6 місяців тому +1

      Mine too!! 😮 Its fascinating.. I won’t say what I think it is bc I am not a fan of ridicule.

  • @StarsTheMutt
    @StarsTheMutt 7 місяців тому +7

    I SCREAMED out of excitement when the first one was from my home state... Then screamed for a different reason when you dropped the map pin somewhere in Colorado.

    • @shawnmcfarland9402
      @shawnmcfarland9402 7 місяців тому +2

      I had the opposite feeling. Zooming into Loveland, Colorado, only for him to say Ohio. 😂😂😂

  • @Kevan808
    @Kevan808 7 місяців тому +7

    5:40 the worm is protecting the spice...

    • @toospooky051
      @toospooky051 7 місяців тому

      He who controls the death worm controls Mongolia!

  • @punawelewele
    @punawelewele 7 місяців тому +7

    I'm a 35 year old man from Hawaii where we have our fair share of cryptids and have popular stories of their sightings and encounters. What's funny to me is that all the stories are from back in the day and there haven't been new stories ever since phones with cameras became popular.

  • @mitwhitgaming7722
    @mitwhitgaming7722 7 місяців тому +5

    Me, a tabletop DM, my notepad ready.
    Mongolian death worm _scribbling_ interesting

  • @majestyc0359
    @majestyc0359 7 місяців тому +9

    Counting objects is also an trick to stop vampires.

  • @SidtheWhistle
    @SidtheWhistle 7 місяців тому +39

    80% of All my UA-cam, are Simon's channels.

    • @evilwelshman
      @evilwelshman 7 місяців тому +7

      That's because 80% of UA-cam is Simon Whistler. 😂😂

  • @jennycraigadventures3314
    @jennycraigadventures3314 7 місяців тому +6

    The wasn’t a wand the frog was carrying; it was a dancing cane.
    “Hello my baby. Hello my honey. Hello my ragtime gal 🎶 ”

  • @marissa1168
    @marissa1168 7 місяців тому +13

    Yooo I been in Ohio my whole life, I never knew I lived so close to the Rockies! 😂

  • @golferorb
    @golferorb 7 місяців тому +71

    I've heard of the worm before from a old tv show called "Lost Tapes" on Animal Planet. As a kid I thought it was all real stuff lol and then I watched it as an adult and it literally says in the beginning its all fake.

    • @sanddoom2089
      @sanddoom2089 7 місяців тому +1

      Oh god I forgot about that show. I hated it even as a kid cause it was just boring. Not even scary or mysterious, just boring.

    • @golferorb
      @golferorb 7 місяців тому +4

      @@sanddoom2089 really? It scared me and my neighbor lol. Especially the poltergeist one. As an adult though yeah its incredibly boring.

    • @wadewilson9023
      @wadewilson9023 7 місяців тому

      ​@@golferorbthe vampire episode scared me as a kid. And the werewolf girl

    • @MAGGOT_VOMIT
      @MAGGOT_VOMIT 7 місяців тому +3

      Yep
      Someone tell Simon that wasn't a Frogman, that was Ruth Yoda Ginsburg trying to avoid a DUI.

    • @dukeofthedance8062
      @dukeofthedance8062 7 місяців тому

      Hahahaha, I needed to laugh so hard right now so thank you.

  • @johnradford6026
    @johnradford6026 7 місяців тому +7

    Loving the sarcasm Simon, you do it so well.

  • @evilwelshman
    @evilwelshman 7 місяців тому +11

    You forgot the greatest cryptid of all - the elusive wild haggis, rarely seen alive and instead only on the dinner plate of many a Scotsman (or woman). 😁😁

    • @roger6867
      @roger6867 7 місяців тому +1

      The haggis is not a cryptid at all. It has the left legs a different length from the right legs so it can more easily run round mointains.

    • @ashphuck2202
      @ashphuck2202 7 місяців тому

      Lol, in Newfoundland, we have wild Bologna! 🤣

  • @giacchina
    @giacchina 7 місяців тому +20

    Would love a video on Cryptids/monsters that turned out to be real
    I’m sure it would only be like 2 or 3 entries and mostly consist of misidentified animals but still

    • @drouid3
      @drouid3 7 місяців тому +5

      Komodo dragon is one such Criptid.

    • @tarancehill651
      @tarancehill651 7 місяців тому

      ​@@drouid3mountain gorillas.

    • @josephteller9715
      @josephteller9715 7 місяців тому +9

      Coelacanths are probably the most famous (extinct Late Cretaceous Period "fish") which were rediscovered by accident in 1938.
      Giant Squids were cryptids until they caught one live in Japan 2006 (24 feet long)
      Bondegezou of Western Papua New Guinea were mythic cryptids until the 1980s when an Australian Scientist Tim Flannery photographed them for the first time ... now they are just a species of endangered tree dwelling Marsupials that walk on two legs apparently.

    • @tijanamilenkovic9442
      @tijanamilenkovic9442 7 місяців тому +1

      @@josephteller9715 third one is a tree kangaroo?

    • @garymaidman625
      @garymaidman625 7 місяців тому +2

      The gorilla is one such cryptid, the okapi is another such cryptid.

  • @steveoconnor5731
    @steveoconnor5731 7 місяців тому +7

    Just FYI the correct pronunciation of Dobhar Chú is "Dour (like hour) Coo". It means dark hound in the Irish language. Oh and Leitrim is "Lee-trim". Irish words are tricky for non Irish speakers to pronounce.

    • @nealjroberts4050
      @nealjroberts4050 7 місяців тому

      I've heard duvverkoo from some but for dark hound rather than otter itself (or was it vice versa i forget which!).
      That is despite being the same words they are different depending if it's one or the other.
      Bit like the difference between saying hedgehog and hedge hog.

    • @Sojoboscribe
      @Sojoboscribe 7 місяців тому +1

      I know someone from Leitrim, and he seemed to concur with "duragoo" or "durragow". The "dhobar" part means "water" in old Gaelic, not dark. It used to be the same term as for a regular otter, before the modern "maida-ushige".

    • @Sojoboscribe
      @Sojoboscribe 7 місяців тому +1

      @nealjroberts4050 bit like when I was doing a French recipe, and had to try to explain I didn't need bayberries I needed bay BERRIES, as in berries/fruit from a bay tree (yes, I know botanically those are drupes,not berries.)

  • @ng0249
    @ng0249 7 місяців тому +37

    hey Simon, love the videos as i always learn something new. for example today i learned that Ohio is in the middle of the country pretty close the the rocky mountains. this surprised me as a lifelong ohio resident, i was pretty sure we were by the great lakes up in the midwest. infact i've stood on the shore of lake erie many times. maybe i'm mistaken or maybe ohio is just much much bigger than i thought. either way love your videos as they're generally entertaining and educational, keep up the good work 👍😁.

    • @WilliamTaylorII
      @WilliamTaylorII 7 місяців тому +7

      Came to the comments for this. Thank you.

    • @spacehootle309
      @spacehootle309 7 місяців тому +2

      You guys are kidding right?

    • @AND-od5jt
      @AND-od5jt 7 місяців тому +3

      Seems he googles "Loveland" and was directed to the Festival City in Colorade (imo).
      Otherwise I agree to it being geographically "unlikely" :)

    • @thepastmaster5643
      @thepastmaster5643 7 місяців тому

      Same with the town Hell. AFAIK, there's at least three of them in the US. One in California, one in Michigan, and I believe the last one is in Texas.

    • @cheesybellend6842
      @cheesybellend6842 6 місяців тому

      Wow that’s insane , Americans geography is absolutely metal , you don’t even know where you live ? My mind is blown

  • @KuittheGeek
    @KuittheGeek 7 місяців тому +4

    6:28 I mean, I play D&D and I would totally use that monster in a game. Honestly, Cryptids give you some of the best ideas for making custom monsters.

  • @NG-VQ37VHR
    @NG-VQ37VHR 7 місяців тому +16

    Exploding itself in defense isnt as crazy as it might seem at first. There are insects that do this.

  • @evangeloevoxi
    @evangeloevoxi 7 місяців тому +65

    You know the people editing this video were not American because in the first story they zoomed in on the Rockies, which is definitely not where Ohio is at 😂🤣😅

    • @mwdouglas3794
      @mwdouglas3794 7 місяців тому +17

      Yeah, they confused Loveland, Colorado for Loveland, Ohio.

    • @samuelgarrod8327
      @samuelgarrod8327 7 місяців тому +10

      As if all Americans would know. 😅

    • @evangeloevoxi
      @evangeloevoxi 7 місяців тому +9

      @@mwdouglas3794 I figured it was a mistake like that. There are usually at least two or three of each town in the US because the old white guys naming the places couldn't come up with any new names apparently as time went on lol

    • @evangeloevoxi
      @evangeloevoxi 7 місяців тому +8

      @@samuelgarrod8327 that's a good point, I should remember many of my fellow Americans are uneducated on US geography, which isn't their fault, but that's a whole other tangent I won't get started on

    • @samuelgarrod8327
      @samuelgarrod8327 7 місяців тому +5

      @@evangeloevoxi Sorry, it was a cheap shot but I had to take it 👊

  • @AppleJackSix
    @AppleJackSix 7 місяців тому +184

    Police officer literally doesn’t know what he’s looking at and shoots it anyway.

    • @Zeppathy
      @Zeppathy 7 місяців тому +43

      'Murica!

    • @tjhooker824
      @tjhooker824 7 місяців тому +4

      Yeah that sounds just plain reckless

    • @madmartigan8119
      @madmartigan8119 7 місяців тому

      Right haha, what a dick

    • @JosephTheRocker
      @JosephTheRocker 7 місяців тому +65

      ​@@Zeppathythat "translate to English" goes hard

    • @NinaMaru49
      @NinaMaru49 7 місяців тому +7

      What if it had been a prank involving a kid

  • @evilwelshman
    @evilwelshman 7 місяців тому +121

    Interestingly, trunko's description resembles the "gajah mina", a mythological creature originating from Bali, Indonesia (which is near enough to the Philippines). It is described as a fish with the head of an elephant with a trunk and sometimes tusks, has fur, and about the size of a whale.
    Of course, it could just be a decomposing whale but where's the fun in that?

    • @damiencouturee6240
      @damiencouturee6240 7 місяців тому +10

      What if it's a decomposing gajah mina? Dun dun dunnnnnnn 😮

    • @pasanjayawickrema819
      @pasanjayawickrema819 7 місяців тому +7

      In sri lanka we have a similar cryptid called "ath kanda lihiniya" fish/elephant/bird thingy..weird

    • @swanchamp5136
      @swanchamp5136 7 місяців тому

      I wonder if this is where the weird electric Penis monster in the Monster Hunter games comes from.

    • @jaroslavpesek6642
      @jaroslavpesek6642 6 місяців тому +2

      Such cretures are born when stupid people see something they never saw before.

    • @rustyhowe3907
      @rustyhowe3907 6 місяців тому +1

      @@jaroslavpesek6642 It's hard to imagine people hadn't seen a lump of fat in their lives.

  • @raoulborchin548
    @raoulborchin548 7 місяців тому +8

    I know enough Gaelic to point out that 'Dobhar-Chú' is just the regular word for an otter. It means 'water-hound' and is used for regular otters along with 'madra-uisce'

  • @tecumsehcristero
    @tecumsehcristero 7 місяців тому +4

    Dabar chu sounds real and the existence of a big, aquatic, mammalian predator pans out for Ireland.
    It’s a lot more believable than a plesiosaur in Loch Ness

    • @larapalma3744
      @larapalma3744 7 місяців тому

      😢

    • @Ava-wm6cv
      @Ava-wm6cv 7 місяців тому

      I'm Irish, never heard of this killer otter before

  • @ohdubwest7533
    @ohdubwest7533 7 місяців тому +4

    I’m a bit of a sucker for these sorts of videos, but I hate what happens to my video feed after I watch one 😅

  • @laurachapple6795
    @laurachapple6795 7 місяців тому +5

    The reason MonsterQuest's season four only had like six episodes is because they went looking for the Mongolian Death Worm and they found it.

    • @ericvondell5157
      @ericvondell5157 5 місяців тому +1

      The Mongolian Death Worm sounds like a mythologized version of a large Centipede Who's venom is extra strength ~ like it was genetically engineered by Extraterrestrials specifically to kill off Mongols In Order to assist China.... well, that's the sort of Camel Dung the Ancient Aliens Theorists might say!
      "Is It Possible That: blah blah blah blah?
      Ancient Aliens Theorists Say: YES!"😂

  • @Booty_Crocker
    @Booty_Crocker 7 місяців тому +15

    Didn’t the Loveland frog turn out to be a tailless iguana?

  • @tansyravenwolf1041
    @tansyravenwolf1041 7 місяців тому +3

    I have never heard of the Loveland Frog or Trunko. I have heard of all of the others, as I love myths and legends. Thank you for sharing these wonderfully interesting legends

  • @edew9180
    @edew9180 7 місяців тому +3

    "the officer opened fire and believed he hit the creature"
    The news, as usual: " 38 shots fired, nobody was injured"

    • @donjuan4003
      @donjuan4003 7 місяців тому

      Cause he wasn't a black guy wearing a hoodie... duuhhh...

  • @weltfenos1021
    @weltfenos1021 7 місяців тому +1

    When I was a kid and watched Animal Planet, I saw this show called "Lost tapes". I ABSOLUTELY know of the Mongolian Death Worm. The story of this cryptid has made me really scared of ever going to Mongolia. Like as a pre-teen, I wanted to participate as someone in the peace corps or some group that the peace corps until I learned that the group had the possibility of sending me to Mongolia.

  • @johngalt97
    @johngalt97 7 місяців тому +13

    Not long ago, we were all surrounded, each night, by the unknown lurking in the darkness. Thanks to trail cams, we now know there were lots of critters quietly roaming about, making just enough noise to keep us wondering.

  • @jeremymatties778
    @jeremymatties778 7 місяців тому +3

    I clicked hoping for the Loveland Frog and hot damn I was not disappointed!

  • @brianlamtman7361
    @brianlamtman7361 7 місяців тому +3

    I seen a death worm. They was very hard to kill. I mean I had to get pass them first and close the door behind me and kill two plant creatures and build my magic up to finally kill them. It was crazy. I killed them with a fire ball spell.

  • @vexvoltage6456
    @vexvoltage6456 7 місяців тому +2

    I know this is Simon's favorite video ever. He's a notorious faerie believer.

  • @Bizones16
    @Bizones16 7 місяців тому +62

    Hey Simon, I grew up deep in the swamps of South Louisiana. While you have highlighted a fable used to scare kids into being good, there are some unexplained things that do go on . Since Santa Maria Voodoo plays a large part in this part of the country, I believe this has a lot to do with the locale folklore.

    • @ChA0s_AgeNt
      @ChA0s_AgeNt 7 місяців тому +38

      All the crystalmeth labs play their part, as well.

    • @iitylernallen
      @iitylernallen 7 місяців тому +6

      Have you seen the king in yellow?

    • @voidstrider801
      @voidstrider801 7 місяців тому +3

      @@iitylernallen Have you seen the yellow sign?

    • @theend1555
      @theend1555 7 місяців тому

      The rampant drug use and lack of an adequate public education system are probably fueling the stories more.

    • @northleedspoppa
      @northleedspoppa 7 місяців тому +9

      Fun fact, voodoo has never played a large part in anything
      As it's make believe

  • @tig1404
    @tig1404 7 місяців тому +3

    Hey Simon , good to see you

  • @Trivial_Whim
    @Trivial_Whim 7 місяців тому +2

    Huh. I thought that rougarou defense was a way to keep away kobolds. Similar to how goblins will try to collect fennel seeds but get frustration or how oni hate soybeans.
    I remember the version I heard from my friend’s mom (who was Cajun) was that they were afraid of frog croaking. Which in retrospect is a pretty huge weakness for a monster that lives mostly in swamps and other wetlands.

  • @serveauxproductions
    @serveauxproductions 7 місяців тому +1

    I guess it's that time of year, I'm also doing a series on cryptids, great work Simon and company!

  • @herbalterrorist420
    @herbalterrorist420 7 місяців тому +3

    Are we sure the rougarou isn’t just a coyote/wolf or another canine/dog that got rabies? Seems plausible that’s where it originally came from an then was used as a scare tactic for kids etc. It would also explain why it is able to turn human into monster and the 100 days later thing kinda makes sense too. Get bit by a rabid dog/wolf etc and before too long depending where you got bitten (tho not immediately) rabies will take hold and you’ll seem like you’ve turned into a monster. Makes a lot of sense tbh.

  • @slr4500
    @slr4500 7 місяців тому +6

    So a podunk town in Ohio gets their "frogman" mentioned, but the Michigan DogMan is ignored? Also, on the map you showed Colorado and not Ohio...

    • @olencone4005
      @olencone4005 7 місяців тому +1

      A few years back, someone (I don't recall who) let the dogs out, and it just hasn't been the same for them since then :P

    • @Flint-Dibble-the-Don
      @Flint-Dibble-the-Don 7 місяців тому +1

      Who? Who? Who?

  • @JayKay704
    @JayKay704 7 місяців тому +2

    Would love to see more cryptid videos on this or any of your other channels! Or at least more videos leaning towards strange dark and mysterious, videos..

  • @appalachianridgerunners6571
    @appalachianridgerunners6571 7 місяців тому +1

    Great Video! Please do one on Mothman, this is where the Meth Men in Black came from.

  • @michaelmayhem350
    @michaelmayhem350 7 місяців тому +31

    A video on the handful of cryptids that turned out to be real instead of myth would have been more interesting

    • @clogs4956
      @clogs4956 7 місяців тому +12

      …and short.

    • @Makabert.Abylon
      @Makabert.Abylon 7 місяців тому +6

      So a few regular animals we all have seen 100 videos about already?

    • @tsartomato
      @tsartomato 7 місяців тому +6

      there's already enough videos about putin on the internet

  • @brye687
    @brye687 7 місяців тому +6

    I had never heard of the Loveland Frog despite living in Ohio. Recently I heard someone mention it on a radio show, and now this video. 2 mentions in 3 days seems weird.

    • @ginayoung130
      @ginayoung130 7 місяців тому +1

      I live in Ohio too, and have never heard that story.

    • @amylou7991
      @amylou7991 7 місяців тому +3

      The frogmen are out to get you! Quick, hide!! 😂

    • @martinusv7433
      @martinusv7433 6 місяців тому

      There's actually a similar kappa monster in Japan 👍

  • @TetrahydrocannabissaurusRex
    @TetrahydrocannabissaurusRex 7 місяців тому +2

    I like these more obscure cryptid videos, and I would welcome more!

  • @disideratum
    @disideratum 7 місяців тому +1

    Surprised Simon didn't mention Pale Crawlers, Fresno Nightcrawlers or the Stick Figure Man.. those are much more interesting than the ones described.

  • @labyrinthgirl17
    @labyrinthgirl17 7 місяців тому +3

    I'm big into cryptozoology, so yes, I've heard about all of these creatures, but it was great to hear your take on them. xD

  • @GreatSageSunWukong
    @GreatSageSunWukong 7 місяців тому +3

    I've heard of the death worm before on a video about the film Tremors

  • @JohnTaylor-cq8tp
    @JohnTaylor-cq8tp 7 місяців тому +2

    I used to work with someone who spent his holidays looking for the Mongolian Death Worm.

  • @sekaramochi
    @sekaramochi 7 місяців тому +2

    Please please please never stop ♥️

  • @argentandroid5732
    @argentandroid5732 7 місяців тому +3

    Maybe a sea otter bred with a river otter and made a plus sized mega otter, like a liger? Even still, I have a hard time believing in a 15 foot otter.

    • @LemurDreamer87
      @LemurDreamer87 7 місяців тому

      Sea otters are from the Pacific, while Ireland is very much in the Atlantic, so that's exceedingly unlikely for a variety of reasons.

    • @argentandroid5732
      @argentandroid5732 7 місяців тому

      @@LemurDreamer87 yep, sure seems like a lot of very unlikely things would have to happen. 🤷

    • @Lunch2391
      @Lunch2391 7 місяців тому +3

      aaaand people tend to be bad at guessing sizes in high stress situations and tend to fit their memories to their needs. so 1 meter becomes 2 and so on

    • @Nylak-Otter
      @Nylak-Otter 7 місяців тому +1

      More like someone found a fossil and made up a story. Otters used to be MASSIVE.

  • @stephanybrown3226
    @stephanybrown3226 7 місяців тому +6

    I mean in a way some are real, based on a real creature. Giant otters did exist. Im talking the ones rhe size of lions a couple million years ago, not the very much alive giant river otter in South America, but these stories spanning over generations someone had a few too many lmao.

  • @albow4oops5
    @albow4oops5 7 місяців тому

    I love how the map zooms in on Loveland Colorado....even saw a pond I fish before the cut-away.

  • @user-hk5by4xt6n
    @user-hk5by4xt6n 7 місяців тому +2

    "A man was driving through Loveland Ohio"
    *Zooms into Colorado*

  • @LucienSabre
    @LucienSabre 7 місяців тому +12

    The Mongolian Death Worm is not so unknown….quite the opposite, it’s actually one of the most if not the second (after the Yeti) most famous cryptid from Asia with thousands of articles (both total BS and scientific ones), documentaries, books, videos (on YT alone there are hundreds of those), etc. talking about this creature.

    • @straydawg2035
      @straydawg2035 7 місяців тому +4

      In the city of Perfection, we call 'em Graboids.

    • @BeckyNosferatu
      @BeckyNosferatu 7 місяців тому +2

      @@straydawg2035 That is, until they sprout legs, then we call 'em Shriekers.

    • @BeckyNosferatu
      @BeckyNosferatu 7 місяців тому

      I was thinking that and the Rougarou. I live in Utah and I've heard plenty about them.

    • @themonsterbaby
      @themonsterbaby 7 місяців тому +2

      ​@@BeckyNosferatuor ass blasters if they fly

  • @VengerVideoGamer
    @VengerVideoGamer 7 місяців тому +4

    I've heard of all of these. That's not surprising though, as I have quite an extensive library of books on the subject, including both volumes of Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology and a lot of Karl Shuker's books.

  • @Russia-bullies
    @Russia-bullies 7 місяців тому +1

    I recognised the cloud giant,the beholder,the otyugh & the huge red dragon among the D&D minis.Maybe the minis will be future cryptids.😁

  • @RavenMenel
    @RavenMenel 7 місяців тому +1

    Idk how accurate that title is. At first its like "yeah idk this frog guy" 😂 to "oh Over heard of that and that was in that one tv show!"

  • @fredblonder7850
    @fredblonder7850 7 місяців тому +5

    The police officer opened fire on an unidentified creature that had not harmed or threatened anyone, nor broken any laws.
    Gah.

    • @TitularHeroine
      @TitularHeroine 7 місяців тому

      I know, right! I could hardly believe it. That's when I began to suspect the story was fake.

    • @russellspear4911
      @russellspear4911 7 місяців тому

      All the more reason for body cams.

    • @donjuan4003
      @donjuan4003 7 місяців тому

      As I've commented to everyone of these about cop opening fire blah blah blah... He thought it was a black guy, that's why you never heard about it... if your a white dude or frog dude you should be pretty much safe...👌 #froglivesmatter

  • @999theeagle
    @999theeagle 7 місяців тому +4

    We had a cryptid in my hometown lore. Her name was Karin "Snaggletooth" Dennis.

  • @BurtonShotton
    @BurtonShotton 4 місяці тому +1

    The one common factor of all cryptids is their uncanny ability to make every image filmed of them appear as if it was filmed with a 1980s vintage VHS camera with grease smeared on the lens.

  • @ShawnKal7
    @ShawnKal7 7 місяців тому +4

    Now do a decoding the unknown on all of them

  • @nofosho3567
    @nofosho3567 7 місяців тому +7

    Loveland Ohio… then zooms into easily 1000 miles west of Ohio lol

    • @mwdouglas3794
      @mwdouglas3794 7 місяців тому

      They zoomed into Loveland, Colorado.

    • @nofosho3567
      @nofosho3567 7 місяців тому

      @@mwdouglas3794 beautiful lol

  • @chicken2jail545
    @chicken2jail545 7 місяців тому +2

    Loveland Frog be like:
    "Hello, my baby hello, my honey, hello my ragtime gal"

  • @jimparsons6803
    @jimparsons6803 7 місяців тому +1

    Roy Chapman Andrews? Isn't he the fellow that was once one of the Gobi Desert fossil hunters for the American Museum for Natural History in NYC? I recall that he has a dinosaur named after him. Back in the 1929 and 30s, I think.

  • @gingerseed123
    @gingerseed123 7 місяців тому +4

    simon is looking more bald than normal

  • @ancientbuilds3764
    @ancientbuilds3764 7 місяців тому +3

    I've seen the second one. It scared the shit out of me while rock fishing. Just out of chance I turned around and spotted it. Lucky for me my legs and arms did the thinking. It looked well pissed off with me. No, it was not a bull seal. It's head was standing about a meter out of the water. Big black evil looking eyes. Fine and dense hair that was kinda mottled. Some grey spots. The black hair seemed weird. Like it was absorbing light somehow. Never saw it's jaw as that was underwater. I waited for about 10 minutes before I legged it down and grabbed my gear. Never gone back there. I'm pretty handy at identifying marine fauna. I've tried playing it as perhaps an artic mammal that got lost. Like a manatee. No chance.

    • @owensanfordstuff
      @owensanfordstuff 7 місяців тому

      I'd have done the same😂

    • @donjuan4003
      @donjuan4003 7 місяців тому

      Wait wait wait, so you were fishing for rocks? Wtf kinda bait you use to catch a rock? And are you sure you were fishing for rocks and not smoking em? Cause I saw a ufo a couple times but it only happened when I was high on weed and shrooms and it turned out I was actually looking at the ground and not the sky... who'da thunk it🤔

  • @cherrytonshawty9120
    @cherrytonshawty9120 7 місяців тому +1

    I think the guy who saw that "frog man" in 2016 probably saw Greninja. Lmao.

  • @Lngbrdninjamasta
    @Lngbrdninjamasta 7 місяців тому +1

    6:31
    Yay slight D&D reference!

  • @katherineozbirn6426
    @katherineozbirn6426 7 місяців тому +3

    The Mongolian death worms could be a situation of racial memory of giant earthworms. These creatures are inches wide and many feet long, found in Australia, and (I believe) in some parts of North America, though they may be smaller there. The "Bigfoot" may also be racial memory of times when man lived next to or in the local of extant ancient man/creatures. Racial memory has a long lifespan, and could be part of the foundation of some of the cryptic stories. Of course, there are instances of fake cryptid creatures designed to lure tourists.

  • @TheLastChickenWing
    @TheLastChickenWing 7 місяців тому +5

    IDK about you, but that cleaned up still of the frogman did NOT look faked. I'm just never going outside again.

    • @olencone4005
      @olencone4005 7 місяців тому +3

      In the words of Emperor Adobe, "Now, witness the power of this fully operational image editing program!" :P

    • @TheLastChickenWing
      @TheLastChickenWing 7 місяців тому

      crossed my mind too, lol i used to be a menace back in the 00's when Adobe first made it mainstream. The new AI is off the charts good, that's why it gave me pause. It's almost too poorly done to be AI. It was either a frog costume or a pre-historic iphone.@@olencone4005

  • @Kroggnagch
    @Kroggnagch 7 місяців тому

    “Half dog... half otter... all nightmare..?” Lol oh, Simon... you do make me laugh, good sir. You do make me laugh.

  • @johnnycallaghan
    @johnnycallaghan 7 місяців тому

    I wasn't expecting to hear of a criptid from Leitrim!! I'm from a neighbouring county (Cavan) and i'd never heard tell of it before!

  • @srice8959
    @srice8959 26 днів тому

    One of the reasons why us Cajuns used the Rougarou to scare the young kids was because it would scare the kids from sneaking out at night. Because the bayou’s and swamps really aren’t the safest place for kids to go out wondering around. If it also had the added benefit of making sure that the kids also attended mass on Sundays was an extra benefit.

  • @panoramicviewvision
    @panoramicviewvision 7 місяців тому +2

    Fact Boy has a golden voice.

  • @cody5535
    @cody5535 7 місяців тому

    _>... travelling through Loveland, Ohio_
    _>Zooms in on Colorado_

  • @michaelhowell2326
    @michaelhowell2326 7 місяців тому +2

    Perhaps the Mongolian Death Worm is just a Eversor assassin hiding in a Calidus.

  • @clogs4956
    @clogs4956 7 місяців тому +1

    I love folklore and mythology. I also read a lot of C19th and early C20th horror stories….

  • @anonymous_hulk
    @anonymous_hulk 7 місяців тому +1

    If you're looking for more examples for a part 2. Consider "el güije" in Cuban folklore.

  • @MurdocIsASaint
    @MurdocIsASaint 7 місяців тому +13

    The first guys must be from Innsmouth, folks say there’s a shadow over it

  • @j.p.6932
    @j.p.6932 7 місяців тому +2

    1:31 Why would he open fire if it wasn’t a threat? There’s major paperwork any time an officers discharges their weapon in the line of duty.

    • @donjuan4003
      @donjuan4003 7 місяців тому

      He thought it was a black dude... apparently if a cop shoots one of them there is no paperwork and they get a raise... after a few are shot another person of color comes up with a 80 millon $ scam saying black lives matter which in turn starts riots and more killings but no one seems to worry or care about where the money went... buy yeah hope this explanation clears that up for ya...🤗😉🫡

  • @whitewarwolf
    @whitewarwolf 7 місяців тому

    Even if I have heard of all of them still great video

  • @bioLarzen
    @bioLarzen 7 місяців тому +2

    It has always been amazing how these cryptoids - just like UFOs and aliens - have this supernatural sense to only show themselves to people with 19th-century level image capturing technology at their disposal, even today... Everyone can make high quality, FHD resolution images of their meals in a snap - yet, these creatures are still only recorded in images and videos 1980's polaroid images would laugh at quality-wise...

    • @martinusv7433
      @martinusv7433 6 місяців тому

      You know that those meals won't go anywhere, right? 😅

  • @victoriaeads6126
    @victoriaeads6126 7 місяців тому

    This is an advert for a followup on Decoding the Unknown. Change mymind! 😂❤

  • @cplramosful
    @cplramosful 7 місяців тому +2

    My favorite show

  • @reececampbell7405
    @reececampbell7405 7 місяців тому

    I work in Loveland Ohio primarily. Always keeping my eyes peeled 👽

  • @1lunawolf263
    @1lunawolf263 7 місяців тому

    I remember hearing about the Mongolian Death Worm on a show called Lost Tapes.